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And then there's this nurse on Alex Berensens substack with this email to him: (which makes me question how "efficient" this new coding system will be).

Hi Alex -

As a nurse for over 20 years I can tell you it is DELIBERATE that hospitals DO NOT ASK about covid vaccination status. Epic (the most common hospital charting system) does not register shots given at pop up vaccination clinics, roving vans or pharmacies or from many other health organizations (as you noted).

MANY of my patients show covid vax status as 'unknown', but when I ask them many have already have 4 shots (the people in my state are ridiculously compliant). We have an extensive covid checklist that we ask all patients, even outpatients, before they enter the hospital - so whether it's a quick EKG or a huge surgery that's going to require a 4 day stay you get asked the 'covid questions'

do you have any of the following symptoms (lists every cold and flu symptom known to man).

have you been diagnosed with covid in the past 3 weeks

Do you have a covid test pending?

Have you been around anyone diagnosed with Covid in the past 3 weeks?

Have you left the state in the past 3 weeks?

I think that's all of them, god knows I should remember since I've asked this a thousand times now. What's a HUGE omission from this list is their Vax status (since the Medical Gods have decreed that they will save us all).

WHY wouldn't they ask that?

It's also interesting to note that the hospital I work for REQUIRES a covid test, not on every patient, but on patients that are going to be admitted to the hospital. Allegedly this is for 'safety' but that makes no sense. Picture this. I work in the surgery department. Our department handles both inpatients (people who stay the night) and outpatients (people who go home the same day of their procedure).

So you can come into the same giant pre-surgery room with all the other staff and patients and we don't test you UNLESS you will be staying the night. So if you have covid you are probably exposing at least 50 people as an outpatient. I think it must be linked to the financial reimbursements they are getting- they probably only get reimbursed for inpatients who test positive at this point. It would be interesting to know.

— Also, one of the HUGE contributing factors to the nursing shortage (aside from the hated vaccine mandates that everyone seems to have forgotten is still imposed on ALL health care workers- thanks Joe Biden) is the MASKS. It is TERRIBLY unpleasant to have to work all day, muzzled. Psychologically, it's awful. As a caregiver I cannot connect with my patients the way I used to, which is super depressing. They can't even see who I am.

Physically it's dreadful and stuffy and I'm pretty sure I'm inhaling bits of it deep into my lungs all day. I HATE them, and so does every other nurse, doctor, tec [hospital technician], aide etc etc that I know. I'm not even talking about the horrid N95's which are actually PAINFUL to have on your face for more than about 10 minutes.

The CDC withdrew the guidance to make hospital staff mask (at all) and are leaving it up to the hospitals. So, in case you wanted to know, that might be the single biggest factor in the vast number of health care workers resigning currently IMO and no one seems to be getting it.

Anyway, this is just a jaded nurse ranting late at night. Thank you for all you do, you have given me hope in my darkest times. Thank you for having the courage and character to tell the truth. The world needs more people like you. We need people who have a fucking spine.

Wishing you every success,

XXX

— PS

Refusing the covid vaccine even though I thought I would probably lose my career and be living under a bridge helped me grow a spine. I somewhat miraculously secured a religious exemption. However this means I'm tied to the hospital I currently work at, so my career is at a dead end unless mandates are lifted. In the event I get fired, my career is over. No hospital will hire anyone without a vaccine. You can really only get an exemption if you are ALREADY hired. This is what it means for those of us who refused. If we need to move or if we get fired we are well and truly fucked.

However, I am more grateful every day I didn't get the jab. Refusing it was, and continues to be, "character building" as they say.

“I think it must be linked to the financial reimbursements they are getting- they probably only get reimbursed for inpatients who test positive at this point. It would be interesting to know.” You are correct - reimbursement is based on inpatient status. Positive test not enough - must be documented that patient has active acute Covid infection. (Positive test can happen after acute phase). Also big difference is admitted FOR Covid? versus another condition and the person has Covid too (especially asymptomatic or mild case).
Things have changed since the beginning of the pandemic when positive test AUTOMATICALLY meant we had to code Covid as principal dx. Now Covid has to match the rules like other diagnoses to be the principal dx.

All states maintain a database with the full name and phone number of all C19 vaccine recipients. Likely was mandated by the feds as they provided the vaccines for free.

Many states require all college kids to be fully vaccinated in order to attend classes. Hard to get a fake vaccine card for this as they simply query the states database.

Most medical records (EPIC, CENTRICITY ect) are not linked to the state database. Thus most peoples medical records likely say “UNKOWN” regarding your C19 immunization status. It’s up to you to tell the medical assistant logging in your visit whether you are vaccinated. In my opinion, only a fool would say “no.” Perhaps this is the first step in your social tracking. Perhaps it is a way to gauge damage done by the vaccine. I don’t know but I won’t participate in this social experiment.

“No hospital will hire anyone without a vaccine”

My oldest step daughter, unvaXX’d, was hired by a Spokane hospital in December.